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Principles of Foundation Engineering, SI Edition (8

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Chapter 2, Problem 2P Bookmark Show all steps: ON

Problem

The saturated unit weight of a soil is 20.1 kN/m3 at a moisture content of 22%. Determine (a) the
dry unit weight and (b) the specific gravity of soil solids, Gs

Step-by-step solution

Step 1 of 3

a)

Calculate the dry unit weight by using the following equation.

…… (1)

Here, the dry unit weight of the soil is , the moist unit weight of the soil is , and the moisture
content is .

Substitute for and for in (1).

Therefore, the value of dry unit weight is .

Comment

Step 2 of 3

b)

Write the expression dry unit weight as follows:

…… (2)
 Here, e is the void ratio and is the specific gravity of soli solids.
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Write the expression for void ratio in terms of specific gravity as shown below:

…… (3)

Here, s is the degree of saturation, w is the water content.

For saturated soils, degree of saturation is 1. (100%)

Substitute 1 for s in(3).

Comment

Step 3 of 3

Calculate the value of specific gravity soil solids by using equation (2) as follows:

Substitute for , for , , and for e.

Therefore, the value of specific gravity soil solids is .

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